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Am 24.08.2010 um 09:49 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:

> Ok,
> now I have collected 4 different 2.4 kernels :)
> 
> Two Skytone Alpha 400 and one Elonex and one that is not working...
> 
> All are slightly different.
> 
> But the minifs is still not running when pressing F3 (I think this is 
> hard-coded
> into the kernel). So I will try as the next step to extract the official 
> Letux 400

I now managed to get into the minifs using the Alpha400 kernel. But that minifs
does not (yet) recognize the Letux 400 .rec format. I may have an undamaged
minifs for the L400 somewhere.

> kernel from the recovery image.
> 
> Nikolaus
> 
> Am 23.08.2010 um 22:11 schrieb Ruben Viets:
> 
>> From: r_vi...@hotmail.com
>> To: mipsbook-devel@linuxtogo.org
>> Subject: Re: [Mipsbook-devel] Kernel 2.6 damages Kernel 2.4 in NAND? - was: 
>> Need to recover, which image to use
>> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:53:42 +0000
>> 
>> Hi Nikolaus,
>>  
>> Looks like you didn't damage the u-boot for one of the bricked minibooks. 
>> Although it looks like there are some issues with ecc/nand.
>>  
>> The dev/mtd1 contain the binary content from the uImage. You can use the 
>> uImage from the manufacture from the minibook. alpha400, letux400, 
>> trendtac(site is not working..), onet.
>> Check the one from elonex below (you only need the uImage 2MB, it's in the 
>> 146MB zip file) :
>> http://www.elonex.com/support/products/onet/lnxonetrecovery.shtm
>>  
>> I have done some uploads in the past:
>> uImage [1MB] [url=http://www.divshare.com/download/6352899-cc9]DivShare File 
>> - .uImage[/url]
>> minifs [2MB] [url=http://www.divshare.com/download/6352758-aac]DivShare File 
>> - minifs.img[/url]
>> recovery elonex for trendtac 
>> [url=http://www.divshare.com/download/6352739-d3c]DivShare File - 
>> recovery.img[/url]
>>  
>> Put the items (uImage(without .) , minifs.img, recovery.img)  on SD card 
>> (1st partition vfat):
>> boot from SD keep press leftshift, leftfn, leftctrl. Just to try if uImage 
>> boots. 
>> leftshift + leftfn + F1 should restore the uImage to /dev/mtd1, this only 
>> works for kernel 2.4 uimage. 
>> leftshift + leftfn + rightshift restores the minifs.img to /dev/mtd3
>> Afterwards F3 recovery works for any recovery.img (which is a tar.bz2 from 
>> any distro)
>>  
>> For kernel 2.6 we need to copy uImage manually with, cat uImage /dev/mtd1, 
>> but first any nand ecc issues need to be resolved. good luck with JTAG setup.
>>  
>> Some other links here:
>> http://trendtac.hyves.nl/forum/3469897/Fg01/Changing_boot_time_splash_screen/
>> http://projects.kwaak.net/twiki/bin/view/Epc700/CompilingAKernel
>> http://projects.kwaak.net/twiki/bin/view/Epc700/KernelOfTheWeek
>> http://www.liliputing.com/tag/3k-razorbook-400
>> http://www.littlelinuxlaptop.com/
>> http://linuxlaptopforum.ark2webdesign.co.uk/index.php/board,27.0.html
>>  
>> Grt Ruben.
> 
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